Also known as Portela, Montoito

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Member (Lourinhã Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• orig. Sobral Mb.

•Mateus et al. 2017: includes ostracods pointing to a late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian age in its middle part (Werner, 1986) and the dinocyst Cribroperidinium granuligerum (Klement) “complex” indicating a mid Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian age for the lower part (Taylor et al., 2013).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. de Matos & P. Carreira de Deus in 1947

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1951. Découverte d'une riche faune de Reptiles Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique supérieur du Portugal [Discovery of a rich fauna of dinosaurian reptiles in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 233:1125-1127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47430: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2005

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